Released at just the right time, Dan Markell’s “Carnival Game” is the perfect addition to your summer soundtrack.

Here is the advance track “I.G.Y.” from the upcoming Steely Dan/Donald Fagen release ‘Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live,’ set to drop on September 24, 2021.

“Drain the Sea” whets the appetite as the Dark Monarchy prepares to release ‘All Roads Lead to Rome,’ the latest project from Mark Anthony K and Joe Bailey.

Matt Mitchell and Kate Gentile’s “for teens,” “spinal thought” and “peripheral drome” are spare conceptions with rich detail filled in on the fly from the assembled collection of improvisation masters.

“What’s Going On” by bluesman Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety isn’t the Marvin Gaye classic, but it’s liable to move your soul, too.

Kiefer’s satisfying rendering of this classic Crusaders tune is a fine entry point to their sublimity, as well as the L.A.-based keyboardist’s next album of the same name.

To put Sluka in any category is difficult, and why would you try?

Here is the streaming premiere of “Philosophy Series” from bass giant Mario Pavone’s final act album, ‘Blue Vertical.’

A Disaster Relief single with Thornetta Davis brings together funk, blues and soul – and a good dose of relevant social commentary.

U.K.-based prog-rocker Joe Bailey is following his hard-hitting Mark Anthony K collaboration with a new album titled ‘Ghosts.’